I'm happy to see that in recent revisions some progress has been made towards the automatic (re-)initialization of the available network interfaces.
When I started using OpenSLP the lack of this feature caused me quite some troubles. As a workaround I periodically scan the available network interfaces in my own application, and then restart slpd when something changes. However meanwhile on some computers there is a second application using SLP so I can't use this workaround anymore. So I experimented a little bit with the latest revision of OpenSLP. Here is what I noticed: 1) Under Windows the re-initialization is initiated automatically, but under Linux I need to send SIGHUP to slpd. It would be really nice if also under Linux this happened automatically. However I'm afraid my Linux networking skills and my knowledge of the OpenSLP codebase are probably not sufficient to implement this by myself and provide a patch. 2) I noticed (under Linux) that slpd terminates itself when no more network connections are available and it gets a SIGHUP. This means it cannot recover when network is available again. For me as a user of the library it would be best if slpd was running all the time and if it accepted service registrations even if no network is available (and then publishes these services on all interfaces, as soon as they become available). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Openslp-users mailing list Openslp-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openslp-users
